Time to find a new VPS host.
Overpriced VPS reseller joins the Fascist Linux Project.
From reading about Omarchy and community reactions it sounds like DHH is a successful grifter, milking money from corps with pictures of agentic promised land. HOWEVER grift will go bust at some point: does anyone remember SaaSpocalipse that did not materialize,along with numerous articles from people with degrees pointing out that there’s no data supporting claim that AI is actually making money for it’s peddlers or consumers. AI grifts will continue until “market” will finally acknowledge it for what it is (it’s just a new shiny tool, no more) and all the myths go bust and investors will want their money back. So - yes money got “stolen” from actual OSS projects that keep world’s lights on, yes vibecoding has not been proven to scale or endure multiple decades like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc. so it’ll collapse from technical standpoint, but it WILL collapse unless DHH will start applying those grants towards hiring engineers. Token money are not worth paper they are printed on so everybody just chill and let this trainwreck go off the cliff on it’s own. Shame DO got into it though… but for all the major cloud platforms who isn’t supporting fascism? What differs is the scale.
ew gross
How many 3 initial techdudes are there?
I only know jwz and DHH
There are RMS and ESR
Seems like everything is being run over by fascists these days.
Honestly that may be the entire point of this. The right wingers are trying to carve out their own corner in the world of FOSS. Understandable given the spirit of open source is literally the antithesis of what they believe in, however they also can’t ignore it now cause it’s vital infrastructure.
“Fascism in your technology is inevitable”
Lemmy is gonna love that the whole thing is vibe coded
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-tokens-from-leading-labs/
Gonna have to set up some time during the weekend to help a friend migrate some infra off DO. To where? Who knows.
I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?
I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?
It’s not about being a “hater” or not. DHH is basically a white supremacist and it should be basic human decency to oppose that
Most of the people going on about him take a lot of umbrage with his racist ideology, but all he seems to do with it is blog. If there are more material concerns (like with Proton) then I’m not seeing them be raised.
People who have raised money before are better at raising money. Not that I fully understand why they throw so much at this project. But I don’t also quite understand why some projects get billions just like that.
networking plays a big roll in such things. the more connections you have, the more possibilities. in my job that is normal as well ( not for donations, but it’s important to get a job)
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thanks for the heads up
Take that survey, express yourself
oh, i did
Okay I’m seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.
But then there’s a guy working on the “Omarchy Kernel”, which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does…
Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.
I don’t think that matters here. NixOS is also MIT licensed.
The nix package(?) system, sure, but the eponymous OS of course has parts under a diversity of licenses, including a GPL kernel.
What I don’t get/trust if how Omarchy just slaps an MIT label on its GitHub even when I can see software in there that I know use different licenses.
They love bing an asshole
I’m out of the loop, what’s going on? Why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
Besides DHH being problematic. It’s really weird that a vibe-coded OS that is
less thanabout a year old is getting millions of dollars of funding while other critical FLOSS software is constantly underfunded.I didn’t known this project was this new, I saw some videos on YouTube about it but it didn’t catch my attention so I didn’t watch them.
Okay, I verified it, it’s actually 14 months old, so I was wrong. But yeah, it’s a relatively new project.
Thank you.
Welcome.
There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.
im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?
Precisely because of what is described in the post.
Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.
He doesn’t have “questionable” political views, unless you consider open xenophobia and fascism no more than questionable. He went beyond questionable a while ago and into being truly unpleasant and promoting harmful ideas.
perpetuating arch on society is the biggest crime
but also the racism and white supremacy
Left-of-center people hate DHH and by extension everything he does and everyone he networks with because “he’s a fascist”.
but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support
It makes gatekeeper types in the Linux ecosystem happy, because it preinstalls you neovim, hyperland, and a bunch of bloatware, so they can get to their tinkering much faster.
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Not that I want to disparage anything you’re saying, but: I’m fairly sure the person you replied to was calling Omarchy users “gatekeepers”. That’s how I read it anyhow
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I have a meeting with a DigitalOcean Account Manager scheduled for tomorrow because I wanted to move my business over from Azure. Guess it’s time to cancel it and tell them why.
How can an outsider support your business?
It’s a shame, I actually really liked their service when I used it. There documentation in particular was really excellent.
Good luck finding a non-evil (or at least less evil) service, sincerely.
This is hilarious
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
Yes, go with the MIC, actual fascist supporting megacorp to stick it DO
Honest to God, I’m not a tin foil hat kinda guy, but I can’t wait to read the papers on the strategies around centralizing technically adept ‘activists’ (WH definition lol) onto cooperative platforms by hugely exaggerating tiny shit like this in 40 years. This is even more poorly sighted than the Mullvad stances from a few weeks ago.
How many killings did digital ocean orchestrated with AI?
Common weirdo ml take
I think your comment is needlessly antogonizing. I’m not unaware of MS’s complicity in the genocide, which is why I’m moving away in the first place.
“The genocide”? Is there just one?
TWO genocides!?
